# Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $459K - $536K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the ChatGPT Learning team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set technical direction and lead the design and development of products that help millions of people learn with ChatGPT.

Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end development of learning experiences in ChatGPT, from early exploration through production and iteration.

- Drive product and design decisions with product managers and designers, bringing technical insight, user feedback, and sound judgment to priorities and tradeoffs.

- Set technical direction for complex initiatives and guide architecture decisions that support rapid experimentation and long-term reliability.

- Build multimodal learning capabilities that combine text, images, voice, and interactive interfaces.

- Develop scalable services and APIs to support learning features throughout ChatGPT.

- Work with researchers, platform teams, designers, and engineers to prototype ideas and bring new AI capabilities to users.

- Improve performance, reliability, and usability across ChatGPT's learning surfaces, using experiments and user feedback to guide improvements.

- Support other engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and clear technical guidance.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping high-quality products across the full stack.

- Experience leading complex technical initiatives and making architecture decisions that balance product needs, development speed, and maintainability.

- Experience driving product and design decisions in close partnership with product managers and designers.

- Strong product engineering instincts and care deeply about the quality of the user experience.

- Experience building interactive educational tools or learning products.

- Experience developing AI-powered applications or systems built around large language models.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit).

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time.

- Mental health and wellness support.

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth.

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible.

- Relocation support for eligible employees.

Salary: $459K - $536K per year

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- product management
- design
- AI
- machine learning

### Nice to have
- education
- learning platforms
- large language models

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